"There is no dispute as to the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people. It has never been in issue, not since the time of the Mandate. This Court made that clear, two decades ago in the Wall Opinion: it said, loud and clear, “the existence of a ‘Palestinian people’ is no longer in issue. The issue before the Court is the ability to exercise that right, and Israel’s systematic and prolonged violation of it. What does the right to self-determination mean? How has Israel violated it? What are the consequences of those violations?”

"“Israel has clearly violated the territorial integrity of Palestine, through over half a century of belligerent occupation. It has purportedly annexed Jerusalem and the West Bank, and established hundreds of settlements populated by more than 700,000 settlers, regarded as a permanent part of Israel. It has extended the Wall the Court found to be illegal, in 2004. It has confined Palestinians to enclaves. It has severed Jerusalem, it has severely restricted Palestinian rights of entry from the rest of the OPT. It has transformed the Gaza Strip into an impoverished enclave, a strangled, besieged, bombarded community, isolated and severed from the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Its leaders have declared that Israel will be sovereign over all the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and made this formal government policy.”